Following some dodgy dealings, stockbroker Saccard is determined to pull himself out of the gutter and regain is reputation. He is of such ill repute that few, not even his own brother, want anything to do with him. Yet against all the odds he manages to establish a bank. Using straw men and secret knowledge of the course of the war, Saccard inflates the bank’s shares to feed his own sordid desire for speculation. Unfortunately, false success rarely endures. The preserved material is a fragment. (stumfilm.dk)
as Saccard
as Hamelin, ingeniør, Saccards ven
as Fru Caroline, Hamelins søster
as Gundermann, bankier
as Rougon, minister, Saccards bror
as Déjoie, kammertjener hos Saccard
as Busch
as Mo'r Méchain
as Mazaud, veksellerer
as Mazauds hustru
as Mazauds barn
as Daigremont, rigmand
as Huret, deputeret
as Sabatini
